losingforgood wrote:Sounds like a good program, but right now, the length of time it suggest that I run during each running segment, is too much for me. I'm taking such baby steps right now, because I'm recovering from some very personal traumas that left me exhausted, so I have to take this in even smaller steps, to build up strength and endurance. The track I run/walk has exercise posts that have signs for each post. I don't know how far apart each post is, and some may be farther apart from eachother than others. But I've been running to one post and walking to the next and so forth for the first 1/2 mile, then walk the other 1/2. I don't think it takes 60 seconds to get to each post, though.
My suggestion would be to run for time, not distance. The program for time assumes that you can run a 10 minute mile. Unless you are in decent running shape, a 10 minute mile is out of the question for most people. When I was done with the program, it took me 42 minutes to run a 5k.
So all in all, at the end of the program, you would be out there for 40 minutes. 5 minute warm up walking, 30 minutes running, 5 minute cooldown which, is still baby steps. If you are run/walking a mile track, you are out there for about 20 minutes anyways. If 20 minutes is your goal, modify the program to only go 20 minutes instead of 40, there is no rule that says you have to follow everything to a T!